'
'That will do no good whatever, Mr Longstaff.'
'Let me tell you at any rate. I have a very good income of my own
as it is.'
'Money can have nothing to do with it.'
'But I want you to know that I can afford it. You might perhaps
have thought that I wanted your money.'
'I will attribute nothing evil to you, Mr Longstaff. Only it is
quite out of the question that I should--respond as I suppose you
wish me to; and therefore, pray, do not say anything further.'
She went to the head of the little steps but he interrupted her.
'You ought to hear me,' he said.
'I have heard you.'
'I can give you as good a position as any man without a title in
England.'
'Mr Longstaff, I rather fancy that wherever I may be I can make a
position for myself. At any rate I shall not marry with a view of
getting one. If my husband were an English Duke I should think
myself nothing, unless I was something as Isabel Boncassen.'
When she said that she did not bethink herself that Lord
Silverbridge would be in the course of nature an English Duke.
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